Jo Cox

[Pannonian]

I didn't mentioned anyone on these forums. I was referring to a certain mentality that thinks it's OK to use a womans/mothers/wifes death for political point scoring.

As for the socialist thing. Well when your credo has been comprehensively discredited over the last 100 years and you still cling to it, well let's just say I'm with Einstein on this one.

But thanks for putting words in my mouth.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics...nts-your-peril

I cling to the socialism thing because I take notice of what local government does for local people. That's the socialism I believe in. Not big concept big rhetoric stuff that you fixate on as "the enemy". But people putting in their time to make other people's lives better, even if only in a small way. I've been abroad in places where even these small considerations are alien. That's not what I want in Britain. If that's been discredited, and I am insane for believing in it, then I'm happy to continue being insane and to believe in the credo of small socialism.

And from her constituents' testimonies, Cox believed in that kind of socialism too.

[Pannonian]

Makes it all the more tragic, people like her are going to among the sort of people we need in power after we leave to make it work.

Diligent constituency MPs like Cox was are the flagbearers of the socialism I believe in. In combination with equally diligent local councillors, and volunteer workers. As much as IA scorns them, I prefer to appreciate them, whatever party they may belong to.